Pfizer African payout

August 12, 2011

PFIZER has made the first compensation payments to four Nigerian families whose children died of meningitis during a clinical trial in the northern state of Kano fifteen years ago. During a meningitis epidemic 100 children were given an experimental oral antibiotic called Trovan (trovafloxacin) while a further 100 received ceftriaxone. Although similar numbers of children died in both groups, it was alleged that Pfizer didn’t have proper consent from parents to use the experimental medication. Pfizer has confirmed initial payments of US$175,000 to the families of the first four victims. Trovan is no longer sold inEurope because of liver toxicity concerns.

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